The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-07-07

restaurant stands now. It so hot that we
had to hang the thermometer in the well and
keep tanning it to prevent it from bursting.
This was the same day, doubt, that all the
Illinois hens laid hard boiled eggs
ROSCOE CoNKLING carries his law reports and
briefs with him to and from Central Park, where
he goes to drive every afternoon. and generally
gets into the shady corner of a street car to read
while going up and coming down. he is one OF
the most studious men of the New ork bar.
MAYOR HEWITT says that it is within his per-
sonal knowledge that Queen Victoria was asked
to join with the French governmental the recog-
milton of the Southern Confederacy, and that
she refused to do SO. He personally carried the
message to this effect from Minister Dayton to
Minister Adams
MRS FRALEY, Of St Louis, is astonishing the
public at Long Branch by the richness and va
riety of her gowns diamonds and early gram
mar. Her husband is ST. Louis speculator
who last year fell under wheat corner, and
consequently into bankruptcy. He is since re-
ported to have made a winning, and has just re-
turned from Europe.
On her way from Balmoral to Windsor, to at
tend the jubilee. Queen Victoria was stopped by
swarm of bees. 1t at night The bees
had swarmed in the glass box of single lamp
and put out the light. The engineer, not seeing
the customary light stopped the tran aud
would have secured the bees and taken them on
to Windsor memento had there been time.
ONE of General Grants best answers to any
question was his reply to William M. Evarts
who, in speaking about Mr.. Beecher asked:
why is It, General, that little fault in a cler
gyman attracts more notice than a great fault in
an ordinary manF' perhaps" said the General
thoughtfully, lit is for the same reason that
slight shadow passing over the pure snow is
more readily seen than river Of dirt on the
black earth
JOHN WILLARD YOUNG is the youngest son OK
the late Brigham Youngs first wife. He is
about forty-three years of age. and has ten sons
and ten daughters He says his father left an
estate worth about s.. 500, 000 He wiled $50, 600
to each one of his children. Brigham Young
has yet monument He lies buried near
what was called the Iron House" in Salt Lake
City. and his family have not been able to decide
on fitting design to mark his grave
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is not fcnd of the ma
who calls at the White House only to pay his re
spects. Recently one of these courteous indi-
viduals sent in his card to Mr. Cleveland for the
tenth time in half hour and wrote in pencil
that he did not want an office The President
if he did want an Office for then he would have
something to talk about Courteous people
should keep away from the White House.
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is failing rapidly
The brilliant intellect which conceived the i'm
mortal tale of ''Uncle Toms Cabin" is percepti-
bly, shattered. The death of Professor Stowe
has added years to the appearance of his lonely
WIFE and she has lost entirely her vieor and en-
thusiasn. In her modest little house in Hart
ford she awaits listlessly the end Of her busy
life. Sadly she said few days ago. to friend
No; L write no more. have done, have done,
have done"
Another Baptist church has been trying to
induce DR.. Broadus to be it's pastor This time
it is the Second Church of St. Louis. DR.. Broadus
went there recently and preached on two Sun
days. He has habit of favorine pastorless
churches in that way. The people were
tranced by his splendid pulpit oratory. and be-
fore he got home sent after him call by tele
graph, which overlook him the way He re-
turned answer from the next station he
stopped at: utterly impossible" A leading
Baptist church in Brooklyn, and another in New
York city, have within the past few years
tended urgent and hattering calls to him: but in
vain He is devoted to the Baptist Theological
Seminary at Louisville KY, of which he is pres
idenr. aud will probably spend the remainder of
his useful life there.
AT Newport gossip is busy telling over and
over the story of the adventure which befell the
children of Mr.. Louis Lorillard the other day.
The nurse went away for q moment, leaving the
baby in it's little carragein charge of its brother,
6 tiny fellow not much older. He began to push
the carriage to and fro along the cliff walk and
toward the edge of the cliffs, catching it and
drawing it back just before it reached the brink.
At last the fatal moment came when he missed
his hold and the carriage ran forward trembled
amoment on the edge and fell over. puneing into
the sea below, baby and all The brave little
fellow beside himself with horror. ran hastily
down the steps to the beach, and rushing into
water up to his neck, got out the poor baby and
carried her mp to the house. insensible but alive
A little care from physician and she was her.
self again, but every one had sad fright, most
of all the little brother, who. however, had in a
measure redeemed his carelessness by the heroic
WILL HAYES. the popular song writer, who
ranks second only to Stephen Foster in that
line, is Louisville newspaper man. He tells
an amusing story about his first poem, written
when he of the vealy age of sixteen, and ad-
dressed to a young lady whose charms had
deeply smitten him. 81 sent it to the Louisville
Times" he says, land the editor told me it
would be printed. Then followed it up and
hung around the Office by day and watched it
solictously by night for three days. Then the
poem appeared in print, with my name to it. I
read it over and over again and again, until my
eyes ached and my head swan with ecsracy. I
saw fame and fortune in those lines until the
girls brother. who was older than /, met me
the street and licked thunder out of me for writ
ing the verses to his sister. To make it
he told it about town that it wasn't for writing
them to his sister, but because the poetry
bad" Since then some 3, 000, 900 OF Willis poems
have been sold.